U.S. Copyright Panel Proposes
New Royalty Rate for Webcasts

A federal copyright arbitration panel proposed a Webcast royalty rate that falls between sharply different proposals from music companies and online companies that offer radio-style music programming.

The panel's job was to set a royalty rate that companies would pay music copyright owners and artists when they use songs in radio-style programming online. The U.S. Copyright Office oversaw the effort. The Librarian of Congress will...